Frederic Goudy famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.
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Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.
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Men who would letterspace lower case would shag sheep.
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When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a feeling of harmony and unbroken rhythm that runs through the whole design, each letter kin to every other and to all.
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Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.
-- Frederic Goudy
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Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
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There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time
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Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.
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The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow…
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness
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Today our achievements are so vast that the whole world has become interested in them.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
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Stop spending your time; start investing your time.
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A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.
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